Queen’s University Archives

CA QUA01047
Persona
n.d.

No information available on this creator.

CA QUA01049
Persona
n.d.

Huntley M. Sinclair was a Queen's graduate (B.Comm 1924) who donated several items of interest relating to Robert Burns, though mostly of these were books to Queen's University Library.

Smith, Frances K.

CA QUA01055
Persona
1913-2012

Frances K. Smith was Curator Emeritus of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, Ontario. Frances K.Smith was born in Bolton England on November 19, 1913. She moved to Canada in 1944 with her husband Walter MacFarlane Smith and settled in Quebec City. In 1946, they moved to Kingston. Ms Smith completed her degree at Queens in 1956. The following year, she began her career at the newly opened Agnes Etherington Art Centre. She spent the next 23 years helping to build up the permanent art collection, researching and cataloguing all the art work at Queens, planning exhibitions, pursuing funds and publishing numerous articles.She was also the author of "Daniel Fowler: 1810-1894", and a biography of Andre Bieler "Andre Bieler: An Artist's Life and Times". She retired as curator emeritus in 1980 and received the Queens Distinguished Service Award in 1987. Frances K. Smith passed away in Calgary AB on December 22, 2012.

Smith, William

CA QUA01057
Persona
1728-1793

William Smith (June 25, 1728 November 3, 1793) was a lawyer, historian, speaker, loyalist, and eventually Chief Justice of the Province of New York from 1763 to 1782 and Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec, later Lower Canada, from 1786 until his death. He was the son of Judge William Smith of New York and the brother of Joshua Hett Smith, the supposed dupe of Benedict Arnold and Major John André.

He, along with his brother Joshua Hett Smith, escaped prosecution and probable execution by the Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York in 1778 for the crime of treason due to the memory of their father's influence upon the Justice system: the elder William Smith had, despite the efforts of friends and relatives, refused his own appointment to the Office of Chief Justice of the Province of New York in 1760, which his son William had accepted.

His brother, Doctor Thomas Smith, was the owner of the treason house in Haverstraw, Orange County, New York that was being occupied by his other brother, Joshua Hett Smith, at the time that Benedict Arnold and Major John André planned their conspiracies.

Smith returned to England in 1783 and then came to Quebec City in 1786, when he was named Chief Justice for the province and also named to the legislative council. In 1791, he became chief justice for Lower Canada and was appointed to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, serving as its first speaker. He died in Quebec City in 1793.

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